By Dave Andrusko

Kudos to Scott Whitlock of Newsbusters for a first-rate column headlined, “Media Yawn as Pro-Life Democrat Beats Back Hard-Left Challenger.”

The contest was very unusual, not that it was pro-life versus pro-abortion, but that it featured a pro-life Democrat versus a pro-abortion Democrat. This primary battle was a very significant test of the Democratic Party’s compulsion to eliminate every pro-life Democrat, in this case Rep. Dan Lipinski.

Let me start with the obvious contrast in media coverage.

Suppose for the sake of discussion, pro-abortion Marie Newman had defeated pro-life incumbent Rep. Lipinski in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Illinois’ 3rd congressional seat.

All the qualities that made Rep. Lipinski so important to National Right to Life and the pro-life community in general would have turned by ABC and NBC into evidence explaining why he had lost!

For example, during the current 115th Congress, Lipinski, who has served in Congress since 2005, cosponsored and voted for the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” legislation to protect unborn children at 20 weeks, a point by which science demonstrates the unborn child is capable of experiencing great pain when being killed by dismemberment or other late abortion methods.

Lipinski also cosponsored and voted for the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill that would establish a permanent, government-wide policy against funding abortions or health plans that cover abortions.

But because Rep. Lipinski defeated Newman 51% to 49%, not a whisper from ABC and NBC. Had Newman prevailed, those same networks would have told us how decisively it was that NARAL and EMILY’s List, and Planned Parenthood’s political arm poured scads of cash into the primary.

Near the end of his post, Whitlock observed

Despite a combined six hours of available air time on Wednesday, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America skipped the story. (The first hour of CBS This Morning was preempted in much of the east coast due to snow coverage. But This Morning did not cover it in the second hour.)

Party primaries often don’t get much coverage, but if a conservative Democrat had lost to a Trump-hating progressive, it seems likelier that journalists would have shown some interest.

“Some interest”? It would have been massive.

Congratulations to Rep. Lipinski

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